Spiral Knights - Orbs of alchemy

Orbs of alchemy

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Fri, 11/15/2013 - 07:11

Catbugclone

Getting orbs of alchemy can be a very big pain saying if you don't have a lot of money.
My suggestion is that people can craft orbs of alchemy by binding them together. Some of you could be acting like this is a bad idea but hear me out.since you can make fire crystals without orbs of alchemy why not orbs of alchemy have the same properties.
three flawed orbs of alchemy can become one simple orb of alchemy.
three simple orbs of alchemy can become one advanced orb of alchemy and so on.
And how I suggest people can get the recipes for these rarities is ate the goods vendor but at a price. The higher the level the orb recipe is the more it costs.
simple or could be 3000
advanced 7500
elite 35000
advanced 50000

My idea could sound far-fetched but give a gander

Fri, 11/15/2013 - 07:48

Thunder-The-Bright

gods ain't gonna help you, son.

you can find them in the clockworks, and the prices are the same of before, so without mist you should be able to get them right away.
if ce prices are the problem, well, that's another thing.

Fri, 11/15/2013 - 10:18

Rewopa

a set of 3 flawed orbs costs

a set of 3 flawed orbs costs 10E from the depot so if you use 9 of them to make a set of 3 simple orbs then thats 50E value for 30E cost. seems legit.

a set of 3 simple orbs costs 50E, so using 9 to make a set of 3 advanced orbs costs 150E.. or if you used 27 flawed orbs to start with, then it costs 90E.

81 flawed orbs = 270E =3 elite orbs
243 flawed orbs = 810E = 3 eternal.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 01:35

The-Vindicar

Being able to craft Orbs into

Being able to craft Orbs into lesser version would be good, as I find it hard to find Advanced and Elite orbs while getting quite a number of Eternals I don't want to put to use right now.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 11:46

Masterreeve

I make you black, bluue and red all over

Orbs are the equivalent of energy with the new crafting system. crafting orbs into other orbs would require a 1:1 ratio of conversion to be fair, which isn't possible if you craft them into whole numbers of orbs. As Thunder said, the prices for orbs are exactly the same as crafting was before, so with the new crafting system you are not losing any money at all, and instead are actually gaining money since you can find orbs for free. Complaining about the drop rates of orbs is truthfully just a player always begging for more after he already got what he wanted.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 16:11

Wavara

"with the new crafting system you are not losing any money at all, and instead are actually gaining money since you can find orbs for free. Complaining about the drop rates of orbs is truthfully just a player always begging for more after he already got what he wanted."

Except when economy goes wacky and CE prices become ridiculous. CE market was way more stable before the BS update.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 16:28

Thunder-The-Bright

gods ain't gonna help you, son.

wavara, that's not because of mist removal, that's because OOO is not giving bundles with energy purchases.
meaning: it's not the update, it's OOO.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 16:53

Wavara

And that was just after the BS update :B Where did I say it was because the mist removal?

Sun, 11/17/2013 - 03:31

Thunder-The-Bright

gods ain't gonna help you, son.

like that, it seemed that you blamed the update. it's not the update.

Sun, 11/17/2013 - 13:50

Wavara

You're right, it's badly worded :l that's what happens when you use Updates as Timestamps... gah.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 03:32

#10

Masterreeve

I make you black, bluue and red all over

@ Wavara
The price of 100 CE is irrelevant, either way you would still have to pay the same amount of CE to craft. And the market has hit 10k a few times even before this recent update. It's the fault of random events and sales that entice players to buy and use energy as opposed to crowns

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 13:55

#11

Superchannel

Let me make a channel

Kinda of a waste of my hard earned crowns,when I can get something for free through hard work and luck.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 02:39

#12

Aplauses

Not sure but Hexyzle already explained this. :s

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 03:11

#13

The-Vindicar

@Masterreeve

crafting orbs into other orbs would require a 1:1 ratio of conversion to be fair, which isn't possible if you craft them into whole numbers of orbs
But it doesn't have to be fair. As with fire crystals, downgrading orbs is more like emergency option, so I think losing some value would be acceptable.

The problem is, it would make T1-T2 even more abandoned, since people would farm most loot-rich T3 and then downgrade the orbs they found.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 06:20

#14

Masterreeve

I make you black, bluue and red all over

@The-Vindicar
That isn't the same thing. Fire crystals are not as important as orbs, and since you can stockpile so much it isn't that bad to lose a few on value. But orbs are essentially, for all intense and purposes, CE directly. Meaning that you would be devaluing the CE that you just used to buy the orbs and eschewing the CE market. And to you statement about forcing people to play T3, well that's pretty much what you should be doing anyway if you are a T3 knight. No real reason to go into a lower tier unless its to do a boss run for tokens.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 13:51

#15

Jaloenow

What if the orbs need just a

What if the orbs need just a certain amount of crowns and materials to be made?

For instance: I'm going to buy a simple orb recipe, and to craft one simple orb I will need + - 2000 crowns (since it's a 2 star orb) and I will also need 30~50 2 star materials to make it?

then for 3 star orbs: + - 3000 crowns and 20~30 3 star materials and the advanced orb recipe
4 star: + - 4000 crowns and 10~20 4 star materials and of course the elite orb recipe
5 star: + - 5000 crowns and 10~ 15 5 star materials and the eternal orb recipe.

Maybe it's even better to let the amount of materials depend on your rank, since vanguards will have a ton of 1 star materials and squires won't have that much.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 14:00

#16

Hexzyle

When you're this swag this world just bows at your knees

Gah! That's not how you spell my name!
You're close though. A lot of people miss out at least one of the middle three letters.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 21:50

#17

Masterreeve

I make you black, bluue and red all over

Another reason i don't like this is that you are essentially crafting energy by making these orbs. So if the price for crafting wasn't the same as the price for buying the same amount of CE, then it would seem off balanced.

@Hexzyle
you wouldn't believe how many times people misspell my real name. It gets to the point that i sometimes misspell it myself, just from hearing it the wrong way so many times.

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